Health

Health is a prosperous state of body, soul, and the social that allows every person to live a socially and economically productive. Health care is an effort to combating and prevention of health problems that require examination, treatment and / or treatment, including pregnancy and childbirth. Health education is the process of helping someone, by acting individually or collectively, to make decisions based on knowledge about things that affect their personal health and others. An even simpler definition proposed by Larry Green and his colleagues who wrote that health education is a combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations of behavior conducive to health. Recent data show that currently more than 80 percent people of Indonesia are not able to get health insurance from the institution or company in the field of health care, such as Access, Taspen, and Social Security. Group of people who are considered 'teranaktirikan' in terms of health insurance are those from small community groups and traders. In health care, this problem becomes more complicated, since in the management of health services not only related to some groups of people, but also the special nature of health care itself.
According to the Health Act In this Act referred to as:
1. Health is a prosperous state of body, soul, and the social that allows every person to live a socially and economically productive.
2. Health effort is any activity to maintain and improve health by government and / or community.
3. The health worker is anyone who devote themselves in the health sector and have knowledge and or skills through education in the health sector which to a certain type requires authority to carry out health.
4. Health facilities is a place that used to carry out health efforts.
5. Health is something that is very useful
The purpose of Health In All Aspects
One of the national goal is to advance the welfare bangssa, which means meeting basic human needs, namely food, clothing, food, education, health, employment and living peace. The purpose of health development is the ability to achieve a healthy life for every resident, so the degree of responsibility for the realization of optimal health in the hands of all Indonesian people, government and private sectors together.
Objectives and Scope of Environmental Health
The purpose and scope of environmental health can be divided into two, generally and specifically. The purpose and scope in general, among others:
1. Make corrections or improvements against all dangers and threats to the health and welfare of human life.
2. Conducting prevention efforts by managing environmental resources in an effort to improve the health and welfare of human life.
3. Working together and implement an integrated program between the public and government institutions and nongovernmental organizations in dealing with natural disasters or outbreaks of infectious disease.
The purpose and scope specifically includes efforts toward environmental improvement or control of human life, among which are:
1. Provide adequate clean water and health requirements.
2. Food and beverages are produced in large scale and widely consumed by the public.
3. Air pollution due to combustion of residual fuel oil, coal, forest fires, and toxic gases that are harmful to health and other living things and become a cause for changes in the ecosystem.
4. Liquid and solid waste originating from households, agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, hospitals, and others.
5. Control of arthropod and rodent vectors of disease and ways to break the chains of transmission the disease.
6. Housing and building decent and meet health requirements.
7. Noise, radiation, and occupational health.
8. Sanitary survey for planning, monitoring, and evaluation of environmental health programs
Health Development Goals
For long-term health development is directed to the achievement of key objectives as follows:
1. Increased ability of communities to help themselves in the field of health.
2. Improvement of environmental quality that can ensure the health.
3. Improved nutritional status of the community.
4. Reduction of morbidity (morbidity) and death (mortality).
5. The development of healthy families prosper, with growing acceptance of small family norm of a happy and prosperous.
Health Development Basics
The basics of national development in health sector are as follows:
1. Every citizen is entitled to obtain an optimal level of health to work and live properly in accordance with human dignity.
2. Government and society are responsible for maintaining and enhancing people's health status.
3. Implementation of health measures stipulated by the government and conducted in a harmonious and balanced by the government and society.